Music Monday: LaLa Music, the Avett Brothers, and Norah Jones

Thanks to my cousin Tim for introducing me to LaLa. Once you create a free profile for yourself, somehow this site allows you to stream-on-request lots of music, entire albums at a time. Between us, we can't figure out how their business model works, but for now, it's amazing. So far, with my not-terribly-obsure-but-certainly-not-commercial tastes, I have found everything on LaLa that I wanted to peep while at my computer.

I spent the last week listening to . . .

The Avett Brothers

I couldn't go anywhere online without having this band recommended to me because of other preferences (probably M. Ward, the RAA, and the Jayhawks. The album's title track, "I and Love and You," is quiet and haunting. At first singer xx's voice reminded me of xx from The National (not encouraging), but it worked on me. The lyrics are sound.

I And Love And You - The Avett...

I expect to spend time this week listening to . . .

Norah Jones

Her new album, The Fall, released this week has been a long time coming and finds her collaborating with Will Sheff and Ryan Adams. Norah has never disappointed me. I also didn't know, until press for this album, that she's such a fan of Tom Waites. More and more reason to keep listening.